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The Fear Driving Conservative Support for Kavanaugh
It’s remarkable: The more women accuse of Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, the more committed to his confirmation conservatives become. On Monday, after Deborah Ramirez became the second woman to accuse Kavanaugh of wrongdoing, the New York Times columnist Ross Douthat noted that among conservatives, the belief that Kavanaugh is innocent “actually gained momentum and support on the basis of the second allegation.” Over the course of Thursday, conservatives responded to the allegations of a third woman, Julie Swetnick, by again doubling down.
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Hundreds of Migrant Children Quietly Moved to a Tent Camp on the Texas Border
In shelters from Kansas to New York, hundreds of migrant children have been roused in the middle of the night in recent weeks and loaded onto buses with backpacks and snacks for a cross-country journey to their new home: a barren tent city on a sprawling patch of desert in South Texas.
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NAFTA is now USMCA
The good, the bad, and the meh.
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Trump Administration to Deny Visas to Same-Sex Partners of Diplomats, U.N. Officials
The Trump administration on Monday began denying visas to same-sex domestic partners of foreign diplomats and United Nations employees, and requiring those already in the United States to get married by the end of the year or leave the country.
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Donald Trump's trade war with China could lead to military conflict, Alibaba founder Jack Ma warns
Alibaba founder Jack Ma has warned that President Donald Trump’s trade war with China could lead to military conflict. “When trade stops, sometimes the war starts. So trade is the way to stop wars,” the Chinese billionaire entrepreneur warned Tuesday during the opening panel discussion at the World Trade Organization Public Forum in Geneva, South China Morning Post reported. “Trade is the way to build up trust,” he continued. “Trade is not the weapon to fight against each other.”
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California Law Bans Bots From Pretending to Be Human
Are you talking to a real person online or a bot? In California, bots will need to identify themselves thanks to a new bill just signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown. The measure bans automated accounts from pretending to be real people in order to "incentivize a purchase or sale of goods or services in a commercial transaction or to influence a vote in an election," effective July 1, 2019.
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I Lived With Brett Kavanaugh At Yale. The FBI Never Returned My Call.
This was not a real investigation.
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For Canada and U.S., ‘That Relationship Is Gone’ After Bitter Nafta Talks
He called his relationship with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada “testy.” But President Trump put that down to heated trade negotiations only. Now that the newly named deal was settled, things between the two men — and by extension, two countries — were supposedly rosy again. “We’ve always had actually a very good relationship,” Mr. Trump told reporters gathered in the Rose Garden on Monday.
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Why the novel matters in the age of anger
In the 2018 New Statesman / Goldsmiths Prize lecture, Elif Shafak explains why – in a world ruled by fear and division – novelists no longer have the luxury of being apolitical.
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Brett Kavanaugh confirmed to Supreme Court
The Senate confirmed Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court Saturday afternoon, likely cementing a conservative majority on the court for a generation and bringing to an end months of bitter partisan feuding marked by shocking allegations of sexual assault and vehement and angry denials from the nominee.
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Trump on why he mocked Christine Blasey Ford: ‘I had to even the playing field’
President Trump said late Saturday that he mocked Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, because he needed to “even the playing field.”
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Trump is trying to 'de-globalize' the Chinese and US economies, former WTO chief says
President Donald Trump is trying to "de-globalize" the U.S. and Chinese economies, the former head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) told CNBC on Monday. Trump has imposed tariffs on Chinese goods since the start of the year in an attempt to reduce the U.S.'s trade deficit. The controversial policy is intended to reduce the attractiveness of Chinese products, given that they become pricier with tariffs imposed on them. But the decision to impose tariffs on China has led to retaliatory measures from Beijing, which has also increased the price of U.S. imported goods for Chinese consumers.
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Trump aide sought to hire Israeli troll farm to win primary, NYT reports
According to a new report from The New York Times, a top Trump campaign aide sought proposals from an Israeli company that would work to build an army of fake social media profiles to sway the outcome of the 2016 election. Despite requesting these proposals, the Times could not confirm whether the campaign staff actually acted upon them.
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Will Drones and Planes be Treated as Equals by FAA?
Soon, perhaps even by the time you read this, the rules for flying remote-controlled aircraft in the United States will be very different.
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Trump suggested to Prime Minister Abe that the Japanese government let his top campaign donor build a casino
President Donald Trump lobbied Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to allow one of his biggest campaign donors, Sheldon Adelson, to build a casino in Japan, according to a new report by ProPublica. In February 2017, Abe met with Trump for the first time at the White House. The two discussed the possibility of a bilateral trade agreement and the United States’ mutual defense treaty with Japan. Trump described having a “very, very good bond” with the Japanese leader.
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ICE put a 4-year-old on a plane to Guatemala. Her dad found out 30 minutes before she landed
Six months after US officials separated them at the border, ICE put a 4-year-old girl on a plane to Guatemala this week so she could be reunited with her father. But there was one major problem, according to advocates who worked on the case: The man didn't learn his daughter was coming until 30 minutes before her flight was set to land in Guatemala City. He lives eight hours away -- too far to get there in time. After half a year apart from her father, the girl would have to spend another night in a shelter alone.
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Music industry hails passage of the Music Modernization Act
American politics may be polarized, but a new law signed by President Trump on Thursday suggests liberals and conservatives agree on the need for a better system to compensate musicians and songwriters in the digital era.
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President Trump with toilet paper on his shoe as he boards Air Force One. A perfect metaphor for his Presidency.
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U.S. Plans To Expand Tent Camp In Texas For Unaccompanied Migrant Children
Last month, the federal government announced it was expanding the shelter's capacity to 3,800 beds — making it the largest shelter in the system for kids who cross the border solo.
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Trump says Saudi king denied "any knowledge" about Khashoggi
President Trump tweeted Monday morning that he had spoken to — and will send Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to meet with — King Salman of Saudi Arabia about Jamal Khashoggi, a journalist suspected to have been killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
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